David Alan Dornfeld
1948–2016About David Alan Dornfeld
David Alan Dornfeld was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, California from 1977 until his death in 2016. From 2010 until 2015, Dornfeld served as chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. At the time of his death, he was the founding director of the campus’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.